The Odisha authorities has introduced a brand new livelihood and income-generating scheme for the tribal individuals with an outlay of Rs 500 crore, an official mentioned on Friday.
The state cupboard led by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik authorised the scheme throughout its assembly held on Thursday, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Niranjan Pujari mentioned within the Odisha Assembly on Friday.
The ST & SC Development, Minorities & Backward Classes Welfare division will implement the livelihood cluster growth initiative beneath Mukhya Mantri Janajati Jeebika Mission.
The state-funded scheme will likely be carried out in 119 tribal sub-plan (TSP) blocks of the state by means of 22 built-in tribal growth businesses (ITDAs) utilising a complete outlay of Rs 500 crore over a interval of three years (2023-24 to 2025-26).
As per the scheme, over 1.5 lakh tribal households will likely be supported by making certain well timed entry to high quality inputs, infrastructure help incidental to livelihood, introduction of higher manufacturing practices, coaching and capability constructing help and advertising and marketing help in a convergence mode.
The ST & SC Development division, by means of this new scheme, will allow the tribal households to enterprise into nicely deliberate farm-based and off-farm livelihood actions on the family stage to reinforce their revenue and high quality of life on a sustained foundation, officers mentioned.
This new initiative will complement the Odisha authorities’s imaginative and prescient of enhancing the lives and livelihoods of the tribal communities within the state by enhancing their financial energy and strengthening their sources of livelihood.
The state cupboard has additionally authorised a particular package deal of incentives for a really giant funding proposal of Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL).
The Central-PSU has proposed organising of a mega Dual Feed Cracker (DFC) at Paradip with funding of Rs 58,042 crore for manufacturing of ethylene, polypropylene, poly vinyl chloride (PVC), phenol, Is-Propyl Alcohol (IPA) and so on.
The Dual Feed Cracker will allow important industrial growth in varied downstream industries like plastic, pharma, agro-chemical, private care merchandise, speciality chemical compounds, paints, packaging supplies and so on.
The IOCL and its downstream industries will generate employment for about 25,000 individuals, each immediately and not directly, sources mentioned.
–IANS
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